Breathing in Confinement

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December 20th, 2020

Zahedan Prison, at least 5 prisoners transferred to solitary confinement for execution

Breathing in Confinement, December 18, 2020: The lawyer, Mostafa Nili, announced the transfer of at least five prisoners to solitary confinement to serve their death sentences. The detainees were jailed on charges of Baqy (rebellion and defiance against the Imam and the Islamic ruler) and membership in opposition groups. Mr. Nili wrote on a tweet […]

December 17th, 2020

Summoning a Baloch citizen to the intelligence office in the City of Konarak

Breathing in Confinement, December 17, 2020: A Baloch citizen named “Shahab Dashti” was summoned to the Konarak Intelligence Office.   According to the Baloch activists’ campaign, on December 16, 2020, for the second time in a week, a Baloch citizen named “Shahab Dashti” from the city of Konarak was summoned to the city’s intelligence office. […]

December 17th, 2020

Continuing pressures on Navid Afkari’s family; Detention of his father and brother for several hours

  Breathing in Confinement, December 17, 2020: Today, Hossein Afkari, the father of the executed wrestler, Navid Afkari, and Hamid Afkari, Navid’s brother, were arrested at Navid’s grave to be interrogated and threatened by the security agents of the Ministry of Intelligence for several hours.   According to “Breathing in Confinement “, the news organ […]

December 17th, 2020

Execution of a prisoner in Saqez

  Breathing in Confinement, December 17, 2020: A prisoner who had previously been sentenced to death for murder; was executed in Saqez prison on the morning of December 17. at   According to Rokna news agency, on the morning of December 27, the death sentence of a prisoner named M.M. Who had been under execution […]

December 16th, 2020

Security forces shoot dead a Baloch citizen on the Mashkid border

Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 2020: Security agents shot dead a Baloch citizen on the Mashkid border.

December 16th, 2020

Security forces kill two Baloch fuel transporter workers in Espakeh

Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 2020: Two Baloch Sukhtbars (fuel transporter workers) lost their lives after being chased and shot by security officers in Espakeh.

December 16th, 2020

To serve his prison sentence, Khairat Parvazeh is transferred to Marivan prison

Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 2020: Khairat Parvazeh, a 30-year-old citizen of Marivan, was transferred to Marivan Prison on a charge of “collaborating with a Kurdish opposition party.”

December 16th, 2020

Arrest of two citizens from Urmia

Breathing in Confinement, December 15, 202: Security forces arrested two citizens from Urmia on charges of collaboration with one of the Kurdish opposition parties.

December 16th, 2020

Complementary report on the beating of political prisoners in Qarchak prison in Varamin

  Breathing in Confinement, December 16, 2020: On Sunday, December 13, 2020, the head of the Women’s Ward in Qarchak Prison, along with 20 male and female anti-riot guards carrying stun guns and batons, entered Ward 8 of Qarchak Prison, where female political prisoners are being kept. By the order of the head of the […]

December 15th, 2020

Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward, a High Security Ward

Thirty one women prisoners and political defendants are currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison. This is a High Security Ward with at least 30 CCTV by which the prisoners are under constant control. In terms of medical care, hospital referrals, food and hygiene, especially following the outbreak of Covid-19, the ward’s […]